@ossobuco,
Adds, Third Street is rather famous now, as the Santa Monica Promenade. I knew it, as mentioned, before that, from childhood. A work friend and her husband (now there's a story - she was from Vietnam, maybe 4'10", very stylish, and he was something like 6'4" american, each one brighter than all get out) later lived in one of the small tacky-by-definition apartments over the stores on Third Street... before the street got malled. Oddly, this kind of thing, apartments over stores, is what urban planners (of which I am one, by license) have creamed about for several years now.
I miss that old street and those two friends. I know she got a PhD from Cal Tech, but don't know what happened with him.